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# Citizen ID
## Indicio decentralizes and digitizes your citizen identity for faster, more secure access to government services.
By using verifiable credentials, Indicio offers you a way to issue secure, decentralized digital identities to your citizens that allow them to cryptographically prove their identity for fast and trusted access to government benefits and systems they need.
### Government benefits
* Increase security with phishing-proof verifiable credentials; unlike passwords or physical keys, these credentials cannot be lost, stolen, or copied.
* Fight fraud and reduce data breaches by removing reliance on centralized databases for sensitive identity information.
* Provide a better experience for your citizens with fast, secure access to the information they need.
* Save time and money by removing the need to manually issue paper documents
* Protect your systems and staff from deepfakes and fraud with mutual authentication, which establishes a digital two-way verification process before sharing sensitive information.
### Citizen benefits
* Access the benefits you need with less time spent on identity and document verification.
* Reduce identity theft and impersonation attempts with a secure digital identification that cannot be copied by bad actors.
* Reduce dependency on collecting and keeping fragile paper documents for proving identity.
* Prove and verify identity in seconds with these fast, simple, easy-to-use credentials.
* Receive and renew documents with a significantly reduced wait time.
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